frugal install of uncompressed HD install?

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: frugal install of uncompressed HD install?
started by: sml

Posted by sml on Jan. 06 2006,07:02

Does using a compressed frugal install slightly slow performance because the system has to operate from the compressed knoppix file?

Therefore would it be possible to improve performance even further than a standard frugal install if you:
1. Install DSL as a HD install
2. Then boot the HD install with the option toram

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 07 2006,04:05

There is a slight performance hit from using a compressed filesystem. If you have a Pentium 2 or newer computer, the performance hit is minimal. For older computers, a full hd install will yield a noticable performance improvement. Even so, the compressed filesystem is quite usable.

You cannot boot a full hd installed system with the "toram" option. "toram" loads the compressed filesystem into RAM. A full hd install has no compressed filesystem image.